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Paris Hilton has been released from jail after serving just three full days of her sentence, but she will be kept under house arrest and must wear an electronic tag for another 40 days. The decision was made as a result of a medical problem, but officials refused to give details of the condition. I sense bullshit, rampant bullshit… $50 say she’ll be seen out partying by the weekend.

Three days after being introduced as the new Orlando Magic head coach, Florida Gators coach Billy Donovan has had second thoughts. Donovan signed a five-year, $27.5 million deal on Friday but now he wants to go back to the Gators, maybe the right move for him but if I was Orlando, I’d be pissed…

The logo for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics has been unveiled in a star-studded ceremony in London. The jagged emblem, based on the date 2012, comes in a series of shades of pink, blue, green and orange and will evolve in the run-up to the Games. And it’s ugly, fugly, bugly…

Next Wednesday, June 6th, XM will air a unique special that re-creates the radio coverage of D-Day, with archival reports from NBC’s original radio news bulletins of the invasion. This incredible broadcast will air, in real-time, starting at 12:41am ET (which was the time of the first airing) and will end June 7th, at 5:45pm ET on The ’40s (XM channel 4).

Google Maps now has street views. Zoom in, rotate 360, “walkabout,” the whole shebang, shame it’s only NYC, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver… Denver???

LOLCODE. Hai! I’m in yr server, programming the LOL way. All LOLCats, All LOL, ALL CAPS. KTHXBYE!

Dario Franchitti won the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500 after the race was halted by rain after 165 of the 200 scheduled laps. Today was one of “those” days if you follow auto racing with the Monaco GP, Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 all taking place within a 15 hour period.

Chinese cat grows wings! Granny Feng’s tom cat has sprouted two hairy 4ins long wings. “At first, they were just two bumps, but they started to grow quickly, and after a month there were two wings,” she said. Feng, of Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, says the wings, which contain bones, make her pet look like a ‘cat angel’. Awesome! I gots to get me one of those…

Guitar Hero 3 confirmed for the Wii. Sweet, I’m looking forward to getting my wireless axe on to Sabotage… A wireless Les Paul at that (take that PS2 owners).

Transformers Trailer. At first, like everyone, I was dreading this, but damn, I’m excited now. I especially marked out for the transformation sound, my faith is semi-restored in Michael Bay… For now…

A rocket carrying the ashes of Scotty from Star Trek is stranded on top of a remote mountain range in New Mexico. Actor James Doohan had asked to be blasted into space after he died. Last month a portion of his ashes, along with the remains of 200 others, boldly made the journey 70 miles up to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere but the 20-foot rocket blew off course, made a four-minute sub-orbital flight and parachuted back down to land with a bump in the San Andres Mountains.

Tony Blair has announced he will stand down as prime minister on 27 June. An indifferent Prime Minister, where the small bad outweighs the large amount of (on paper) good. I wonder what he’ll do now, I hear there is room for a driver at DEI…

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. announce he’s leaving DEI, the team his father built, at the end of the current season. Cue mass hysteria about a black #3 Budweiser Chevrolet on the track next season…

An online petition aimed at getting Nike to produce the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the movie Back to the Future Part 2. Where’s the online petition to get Hasbro to make hoverboards too?

The Scottish National Party have the biggest single number of MSPs in the new Scottish parliament. The SNP won 47, Labour came in second with 46; the Conservatives have 17; the Liberal Democrats secured 16; and others came in with three. This is going to be interesting…